Tag Archives: Google Blogger vs. WordPress.com

As a new blogger, you probably like to choose a Free blog service to get started. Both Google blogger and WordPress.com provide this kind of Free service you can get. However, you may want to find out the similarities and differences between them before you decide to pick one. Since I own both Google Blogger and WordPress.com blog, I can tell you what the similarities and differences between them:

Google Blogger

WordPress.com

Requires minimal HTML knowledge

No need to know anything about HTML

Allows CSS edit

Don’t allow CSS edit unless you upgrade it

Allows Google AdSense & new Amazon products

Don’t allow any third-party codes

Allows you to edit HTML code

Can’t access any files

Allows you to add your own footer

Can’t do anything about the footer

new Now it allows you to create pages

Allows you to create pages

new Now it allows you to import and export other blogs

Allows you to import and export other blogs

Layout is narrow but can be modified

Has more variety wider themes

No trackback service instead it has backlink services

Has trackback service

No comment spam protection

Offers free anti-spam protection (Akismet)

Can add images & videos

Can add images, videos, audio, and media

Labels (can be Categories/Tags) is available

Tags and Categories are available

Can add your own widgets

Some themes came with certain widgets. Allows you to add text widgets

Hard to redirect to your paid-hosting server

Can easy redirect to your paid- hosting server

Allows you to schedule future-dated posts

Allows you to schedule future-dated posts

Has OpenID Service

Has OpenID Service

new Now it has undo/redo function in its editor

Has undo/redo function in its editor

No table function in its editor

No table function in its editor

Comment editor is in-line

Comment editor is in-line

Allows you to moderate comments

Allows you to moderate comments

Offers feed service

Offers feed service

No Blog Stats, no Blog Surfer, and no Tag Surfer services

Offers Blog Stats, Blog Surfer, and Tag Surfer services

new Now it allows your readers to sign up

Allows your readers to sign up

These are all I can recall so far. Make a wise decision before you choose one. For me I prefer Google Blogger since it allows me to hack the codes the way I like. I also like my self-hosted WordPress blog too for it also allows me to study those PHP files there.

However, if you are thinking to temporarily use a Free blog service and eventually transition it to a paid-hosting service. Then I suggest you to get WordPress.com blog since it will make your life easier when one day you are ready to pay for your own hosting.

WordPress.org blog doesn’t give those limitations listed above from WordPress.com. See The Difference Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org here. WordPress.org gives all the freedoms you need; no limitations such as posting third-party codes. Moreover you can have full access to all the files.

Would you like to use Google Blogger or WordPress.com blog? Please leave a comment below.

Update: I’ll add updates to this post whenever I recall some features about Google Blogger vs. WordPress.com. More updates have been added. See the items marked new.